Music 420 Overview

Computational acoustic modeling for digital audio effects and sound synthesis

Topics:

• sampled traveling waves
• acoustic simulation using delay lines, digital filters, and nonlinear elements
• comb filters, allpass filters, and state-space models
• delay-line interpolation and sampling-rate conversion
• phasing, flanging, and chorus effects
• finite difference schemes and associated filter design
• computational models of selected musical instruments, such as
  • plucked, struck (piano), and bowed strings
  • woodwinds (primarily the clarinet)
  • flute and organ pipes
  • brasses

and, time permitting,

• waveguide meshes for simulating vibrating membranes and acoustic volumes
• wave digital filters
• virtual analog

(This overhead presentation is adapted from Handout #1: MUS420 Administrative Info.)